I have been meaning to get back to developing for some time and now that I have a box that is at least stable I have started adding dev tools like CS to it.

Initially I tried 1,2 as it is listed as latest stable version, I got lots of depreciated messages when building and walktest had all sorts of problems mainly with shaders. I made an assumption that I may have too new a system for a fairly old version of CS, I am running Xubuntu jaunty on an AMD phenon system with Nvidia 9800GX2 and tried the latest snapshot version, seems like it is 1.9.

Configure seems to run OK, jam runs Ok though I do get a message that 1 target failed, jam install also seems to work ok, at least it creates and populates /usr/local/share/crystalspace-1.9. At this point I can run walktest and it seems to be as it should but if I then run jam distclean then walktest, and every other installed demo does not work, file not found error.

Obviously I am doing something wrong but I would appreciate someone pointing out my error.

don't bother installing CS, especially if you're a programmer.Since there's no uninstall program/target, it can be tricky at times, when you're dealing with multiple builds.Install is really only useful for packagers...

For the failed target, it would help if you actually told us what fails exactly.

For the deprecated warnings, they just help people keeping their app up-to-date with next CS version,encouraging them to use the "new way" of doing things (ie. use this method instead of that one).Generally, there are instruction in the manual's release notes appendix about how to do this.